Friday May 31, 2019
(At Blue Ridge Assembly unless otherwise noted. Open only to registered symposium participants.)
Online registration and phone registration are now closed.
You are welcome to register at the door.
10:00 AM – 3:00 PM
SORRY THIS EVENT IS NOW FULL
Ethnobotanical and Native Plant Field Study
David Winston, RH(AHG)
Cost $69
Join this perennial outdoor favorite for a day with David Winston. Examine the unique flora of the southeastern mountains and hear stories of creation and the origin of medicine. Discover how the medicine, food and useful materials provided by the plants have nurtured the Native peoples and Appalachian settlers for millennia. Explore the healing power of the herbs, the water, the earth, the trees, and how you can make them a part of your life.
This event fills every year, so please register early! Limit 35 participants.
CE NOTE: Applications submitted for 5 hours continuing education credit for nurses and acupuncurists. Sorry, but Oregon (OBNM) does not grant ND CME credits for herb walks and field studies.
David Winston RH (AHG) is an herbalist and ethnobotanist with over 40 years of training in Cherokee, Chinese and Western herbal traditions. He has been in clinical practice for over 40 years and is an herbal consultant to physicians, herbalists and researchers throughout the USA and Canada. In 2013 David was presented with the Natural Products Association (NPA) Clinician’s Award. He is founder of Herbalist and Alchemist, Inc, and offers a two year herbal training program.
1:00 PM – 5:15 PM
Pre-conference Intensive: The Impact of Stress on Accelerated Aging: Botanical Remediation
Lise Alschuler, ND
Cost $89
Integrative practitioners recognize the impact of stress on health. We routinely incorporate stress management into our care plans. But how many of us truly understand how stress contributes to disease and to aging? It is true that chronic stress relentlessly unravels our health, ultimately culminating in accelerated aging. The pathophysiological impact of chronic stress is complex, pervasive and … reversible.
This intensive provides current understanding of the maladaptive stress response, Circadian rhythm disorder, and cortisol resistance. The associated endocrine, immune, musculoskeletal, neurological and digestive consequences as components of premature aging are explored. A holistic approach is discussed, with an emphasis on botanicals, to preventing and reversing the effects of stress. Specifically, this includes strategies to support sleep optimization, provide limbic system regulation, reinstate optimal endogenous Circadian rhythmicity and restore healthy intercellular dynamics
Note: Applications submitted for 4 hours continuing education credits for naturopathic physicians, acupuncturists and nurses.
Lise Alschuler, ND, FABNO is the Executive Director of TAP Integrative, a nonprofit web-based educational resource for integrative practitioners. Dr. Alschuler is a Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of Arizona School of Medicine where she is on the faculty of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine.
She practices naturopathic oncology out of Naturopathic Specialists, LLC. Dr. Alschuler co-hosts a radio show, Five To Thrive Live! and is co-founder of the iTHRIVE Plan, a lifestyle app for cancer survivors. She is co-author of Definitive Guide to Cancer, now in its 3rd edition, and Definitive Guide to Thriving After Cancer.
2:00 PM – 5:30 PM
SORRY THIS EVENT IS NOW FULL
Ecology, Propagation and Cultivation of Native and Oriental Medicinal Herbs at Mountain Gardens
Joe Hollis
Cost $59
Mountain Gardens is a forty-year-old botanical garden of useful plants incorporating the largest collection of medicinal herbs in the eastern US. We are located adjacent to National Forest at the base of the highest mountains in the east, and most of the important native medicinals are growing here naturally (the rest have become established). In addition many herbs have been introduced from North America, Europe and, especially, East Asia.
This workshop offers a leisurely plant walk with detailed information on the ecology, propagation and cultivation of the herbs. We also look at the nursery, apothecary and seed bank. For more information and pictures, please visit our website www.mountaingardensherbs.com and we encourage you to view some of the many videos on YouTube (search Mountain Gardens or Joe Hollis)
Joe Hollis has lectured, consulted and taught workshops in medicinal herb identification, cultivation and processing at Mountain Gardens and at various colleges and conferences in North Carolina since 1980. He also teaches 5-8 apprentices annually. The gardens are regularly toured by university and herb school classes. Mountain Gardens sells its seeds, plants and preparations at herb fairs and medicinal herb conferences, and via the internet at their website.
Joe has been an instructor at Daoist Traditions (Asheville, NC) since the school’s founding (2006) teaching classes in Medical Botany and Herbal Preparations, as well as supervising the student herb garden. In June 2018 he will be travelling to China to collect important medicinal species not presently available in the US.
CE NOTE: Applications submitted for 4 hours continuing education credits for nurses and acupuncturists.
Join us for this once-a-year (since 1993!) gathering to celebrate the healing plants and learn new field and clinical information!
Online registration and phone registration are now closed.
You are welcome to register at the door.
Questions? Contact us and we’ll be happy to help!
